The book includes authentic testimonies of people saved from Holocaust by Oskar Schindler. This is the story of life and activity of a man that was driven by the whirlwind of war, told by his forme...
The book is the result of a research project funded by a grant from Poland’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The name of the project was “The influence of Poland’s acces...
Publikacja gromadzi ponad 40 artykułów rozpatrujących dziedzictwo kulturowe w Europie Środkowej w rozmaitych jego aspektach w ciągu 25 lat transformacji ustrojowej. Druga dekada XXI wieku sk...
W Gorlicach, prawie siedmiotysięcznym galicyjskim mieście, przed 1914 r. nikt nie zdawał sobie sprawy, czym jest wojna. Wieści o jej wybuchu wzbudziły ciekawość, która szybko przerodziła się...
A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Award-winnin...
The classical work of Samuel Pufendorf on the reign of Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden, printed in Nuremberg in 1696, has not been systematically explored. The translation project made it possible...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
A profound influence on medieval Europe's view of the wider world, this thirteenth-century account of a Venetian merchant's amazing experiences in the court of the great Mongol leader, Kubilai Khan...
Features three essays that examine the nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower, and asks fundamental questions about modern civilization itself. This title explores lif...
The publication of Ambassador of the Middle Kingdom met with widespread interest in China and was described as the best monograph in the world about Michal Boym. It was recognized as containing the...
Monumentalny album o Jasnej Górze, miejscu, gdzie – jak to pięknie wyraził Henryk Sienkiewicz – bije nieśmiertelne serce polskiego ludu. Duchowa Stolica Polski. Klasztor, sanktua...
In countries with a tradition of more than one hundred years of a free market economy, both public opinion and the economic policy of subsequent governments focus on pragmatic continuity. Changes o...
Monumentalny album o Jasnej Górze, miejscu, gdzie – jak to pięknie wyraził Henryk Sienkiewicz – bije nieśmiertelne serce polskiego ludu. Duchowa Stolica Polski. Klasztor, sanktua...
The main purpose of the publication is to present the major achievements and challenges in the process of European integration and show what influence membership in the European Union has on Poland...
Spis Treści :CONTENTSEditorial NoteIntroduction CHAPTER 1. Outline of the History of Jews in Poznań and Swarzędz CHAPTER 2. Source Materials Used in the Study of...
Kultury archeologiczne na ziemiach Polski w jej obecnych granicach w okresie późnej starożytności podlegały różnorodnym i daleko idącym przemianom. Na ten dynamiczny obraz złożyły się...
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the worldBy 1917 ...
Mademoiselle S., identified here only as Simone, was a well-educated and cultured lady living in Paris at the height of the glamorous roaring twenties. Simone’s letters to her married lover C...
This book explores main social and economic phenomena that, across nations, are fundamental to transformations of the social structure: labor market processes, precarity, processes and mechanisms o...
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at clo...